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Drying of Lake Faguibine, Mali
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Published August 10, 2008
One example of increasing aridity in Mali appears in Lake Faguibine. Starting in the late 1980s, a drop in precipitation steadily dried the lake. Even though normal rainfall resumed after the year 2000, the lake remained nearly dry.
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IJsselmeer, Netherlands
Published August 3, 2008
Beginning in 1932, Dutch engineers completed a dike across the Zuiderzee to create a freshwater lake. Engineers later used pumps to drain water from the area, creating expanses of usable land known as polders. These images show changes in the land cover in one such polder between 1980 and 2007.
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Lagoons and Reefs of New Caledonia
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Published July 27, 2008
This French-governed archipelago contains the world’s third-largest coral reef structure.
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Urbanization of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
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Published June 29, 2008
In western Africa, just south of the Sahara Desert, lies the landlocked nation of Burkina Faso. The nation experienced a 200 percent increase in urban population between 1975 and 2000. Much of that growth occurred in the capital city of Ouagadougou: Between 1960 and 1993, Ouagadougou experienced a 14-fold increase in area.
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Forest Change on New Ireland, Papua New Guinea
Published June 19, 2008
In June 2008, scientists published the country’s first detailed assessment of the type, extent, and health of Papua New Guinea’s forests, documenting the wide-spread deforestation and degradation of lowland rainforest on the islands east of the mainland, including the island of New Ireland.
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